fire-pan

A family cooks sausages over a fire-pan during a camping trip.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Portable cooking container: A "fire-pan" is a metal container or pan that holds a fire for cooking, especially outdoors. It is designed to be moved from place to place.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The campers used a fire-pan to cook their stew over the open flames. (A portable container for holding fire while cooking outdoors.)
  • He carried a small fire-pan on his backpacking trip to prepare meals without leaving a trace. (A lightweight, movable cooking device.)

Advanced Usage

• "fire-pan cooking": The practice of using a fire-pan for outdoor meal preparation.
  • Fire-pan cooking is popular among campers who want to minimize environmental impact. (Cooking with a contained fire.)

Variants and Related Words

• Fire (n): the phenomenon of combustion; heat and light produced by burning.

  • The fire in the fire-pan kept the camp warm. (The burning substance.)

• Pan (n): a metal container used for cooking.

  • She placed the pan over the fire-pan to heat the soup. (A cooking vessel.)

Synonyms

• Camp stove: a portable device for cooking outdoors.
• Portable firebox: a container for holding a small fire.

Phrasal Verbs

• Pan out: to turn out well or to develop (not directly related to fire-pan).
  • The camping trip didn't pan out as planned. (Did not succeed as expected.)

Related Idioms

• Out of the frying pan into the fire: to go from a bad situation to a worse one.
  • After escaping the storm, they got lost — it was out of the frying pan into the fire. (Moving from one problem to a bigger one.)